Here’s the Flat Lake Fire when it first really got going a few evenings back, looking north from Big Bar Lake. And here’s the Bonaparte fire, through the smoke, off to the […]
Unsettling Fire
A Walk in Nature
In the Okanagan, trails are wide. That way, people can use them as exercise routes. The idea is to get out into nature. More practically, the invasive weeds thrive so well that […]
Out of a Garden, A Desert: The Nuts and Bolts of Settler Culture
Every generation and social class in Canada gets to make the country new, in their own image. That’s part of being in a settler society. Settlement is a permanent process, and everyone […]
Only the Flowers, Please and Thank You
Not the lawn (yes, that’s a lawn, Vernon style). Yuck. But morning glory flowers! Ah. Give us the weeds! So delicious.
How Hot is It in the Okanagan?
So hot that the native vegetation has abandoned summer, to wait it out until spring. It’s nice to think of this ancestor as a beautiful springtime sunflower. Truth is, it wouldn’t be […]
Let’s Help the Children Have a House to Live in
So, let’s say you’re 18 or 25 or 30 and need a place to live in the Okanagan. Where are you going to go? Here? Sorry, you can’t even afford the stone […]
The Beauty of Okanagan Nature
Nature is hard to create. You will need a tractor and a mower, and you will need to get stuck in the swamp every few feet and struggle out, but in the […]
Flowers are Where It’s At
The daisy and the bee. The daisy with no bee. The second flower will, however, get pollinated. Not even a spider can wait forever, and it will be drenched with pollen when […]
The Food Chief Speaks
Are You Guys Nuts?
Who hires these guys to landscape their 2 million dollar homes? If you have the money to build a house like that, can you not do math? So, you want the house […]
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